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Analyze the first stanza from Meinke's poem, The First Marriage.

imagine the very first marriage a girl
and boy trembling with some inchoate
need for ceremony a desire for witness:
inventing formality like a wheel

In this, the first stanza from the poem, marriage is viewed as:
Select one:
a. an important tradition ( Incorrect )
b. a required ceremony ( incorrect )
c. a dying institution
d. an unnecessary step

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If those that you marked incorrect are ruled out, it can only be

D) An unnecessary step
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